The highest rated shows on network television last night had 1.3 ratings.
NBC: The season finale of HANNIBAL is currently at 0.9, matching last week, but it began at 10:01PM and followed a 1.6 for the last half-hour of DATELINE, so that number may come down in final ratings on Monday. However, it should be no worse than steady with the 0.8 for the 2013 season finale (which aired against an NBA Finals game in June.) The 2-hour Dateline itself was at 1.3.
ABC: The season premiere of WHAT WOULD YOU DO? and 20/20 were both at 1.3, which for What Would You Do? was down 0.2 from last season’s premiere. The night started with 1.1 for a rerun SHARK TANK.
CW: The second half of LABYRINTH fell 0.2 to a discouraging 0.2.
CBS: Reruns, highlighted by 0.8 for BLUE BLOODS.
FOX: Reruns, with 0.3s for both 24 and GANG RELATED.
Sports steps up on Saturday night, with primetime NHL PLAYOFFS on NBC and MLB BASEBALL on FOX. On Sunday, FOX has NASCAR RACING while BELIEVE and CRISIS return to NBC to start burning off their remaining episodes. HBO is preempting Game of Thrones and the rest of its Sunday line-up for THE NORMAL HEART, while AMC has the “midseason” finale of MAD MEN.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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